Paul Brough

Paul Brough

Paul has been Principal Guest Conductor of the BBC Singers since January 2011 and a Professor in conducting and academic studies at the Royal academy of Music since 2004. His conducting has taken him to the BBC Philharmonic, BBC Concert Orchestra, Britten Sinfonia, Manchester Camerata, St James’s Baroque and Ulster Orchestra. His ongoing schedule of broadcasts and concerts with the BBC Singers and other BBC ensembles - include “Dr Haydn’s Inexhaustible Genius-Box” for the Royal Academy of Music, a CD release for “Signum” of music by Sir Richard Rodney Bennett and further work in the UK, USA, Australia and South Korea. His live Radio3 60th anniversary performance of Britten’s ‘St Nicolas’ with the BBC Concert Orchestra was televised on BBC4 and made into a BBC CD. He has premiered over 30 works - recently and notably Judith Bingham (“Actaeon”: live Radio3 BBC commission), and Sir John Tavener (“Butterfly Dreams”: Brighton Festival). His most recent CD recordings, Robert Hugill (Chameleon Arts Orchestra), Britten’s ‘St Nicolas’ (BBC Concert Orchestra) and “The English Rachmaninov” (Choir of All Saints, Margaret Street - Director of Music since 2004) have attracted first-class reviews in “International Record Review” and ‘Gramophone’ Magazine, and on BBCRadio3’s “CD Review”.

Paul Brough was born in London of English and German descent and trained at the Royal College of Music, St Michael’s College, Tenbury and Magdalen College, Oxford (Mackinnon Scholar; Boult Memorial Prize), becoming Conductor of the Oxford University Chamber Orchestra. He studied with Colin Metters and George Hurst as RAM Henry Wood Scholar and post-student Fellow and in regular masterclasses with both Sir Colin Davis and Ilya Musin.

He conducted period orchestra The Hanover Band for seven successful seasons, serving as Principal Conductor 2007-10.

He was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music in 2007.